Title: Downright Bossy
Author: Tricia Newlan
Date: 2023
Publisher: Tricia Newlan
Quote: "All I have to do is sign on the dotted line. Sell my pride and joy."
Marcus Javernick worked his way to the top of the hotel where he worked, inherited the place from his former boss, built it up, and is about to sell it just so he can have the fun of building up another posh hotel, when he meets Adriana, an employee whose determination and ambition match his own. And she looks, he says, like "a brunette Grace Kelly."
Men can proceed to disparage someone who reminds them of other actresses but, in my admittedly limited experience, if they compare a woman to Grace Kelly there is no hope. Princess Grace was the archetype of the woman men wanted to marry. And so, although Adriana proceeds, in this short novel, to break every one of The Rules, by the end of this book...
Well, it's a romance. I tend to disbelieve romances where the couple flop into bed before marriage, because in real life you can't be "just friends" when there's a possibility that you've produced a baby. You may think that such an icky beginning doesn't have to kill love dead, every single time, and maybe it doesn't for all I know. For me, everything else can happen in whatever order it may, but people who love each other save the act that makes babies for the time when they want babies.
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